Lützelbach Castle

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Lützelbach Castle
View of the church and churchyard 2011

View of the church and churchyard 2011

Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Lützelbach
Geographical location 49 ° 46 '59 "  N , 9 ° 4' 10.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '59 "  N , 9 ° 4' 10.4"  E
Height: 290  m above sea level NN
Lützelbach Castle (Hesse)
Lützelbach Castle

The castle Lützelbach is an Outbound medieval Spur castle on 290  m above sea level. NN in Lützelbach in the Odenwaldkreis in Hesse . The complex is considered an ancestral castle of the charm of Breuberg , which later built the nearby Breuberg Castle.

Geographical location

Lützelbach is located in the northeastern Odenwald , in the area of ​​the Buntsandstein-Odenwald (natural area 144.68 Breuberg-Odenwald ) in the valley of the Lützelbach , which flows a few kilometers northwest into the Mümling . Today the Hessian-Bavarian border runs east of the village. The former castle was located in the area of ​​today's Lützelbach Evangelical Church and the cemetery, which are located at a high altitude west of the village.

history

It is known from written sources that the Lords of Breuberg named themselves as Reiz de Luzelenbach after the place when they were first mentioned in the 12th century . The associated aristocratic seat is traditionally sought in the area of ​​the Lützelbach Evangelical Church. Walls and a defense tower are said to have been demolished there in the 19th century.

For the first time in 1229, Conrad I called himself “Reiz von Breuberg” ( Bruberc ) after the newly built Breuberg Castle . It is possible that the rise of a noble family with the construction of a larger hilltop castle as a fiefdom of the Fulda Abbey is within reach. The family of Reiz von Breuberg was also wealthy in the Wetterau and rose to one of the most important ministerial families in the region in the 13th century . With the extinction of the Breubergers in 1323 at the latest, the Lützelbacher Burg is likely to have lost its importance to the Breuberg. Another small seat of the Niederadligens from this later period can be found between Lützelbach and Breuberg with the Mühlhäuser Schlößchen .

investment

During the digging of line trenches in September 2001, unusually strong wall foundations were discovered in the Lützelbach cemetery and archaeologically documented. A 4.20 m thick sandstone foundation wall was uncovered , which was still preserved in the ground at a height of between 1.30 and 1.40 m. The wall was built using shell technology with exposed masonry, possibly it is a cellar room.

The finding is interpreted as a keep . Further investigations were not possible in the middle of the modern cemetery. Stones from the demolished castle buildings are likely to be found in today's cemetery wall and in the church built in 1770–74 instead of a previous building. Nothing can be seen on site, only a small hint on the cemetery plaque reminds of the castle complex.

literature

  • Holger Göldner: Discovered the family castle of the Breubergers? In: hessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2001 , Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1749-1 , p. 139.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 552.
  • Thomas Steinmetz: Castles in the Odenwald. Verlag Ellen Schmid, Brensbach 1998, ISBN 3-931529-02-9 , p. 44.
  • Peter Weyrauch: To Lützelbach Castle. In: The Odenwald. Zeitschrift des Breuberg-Bundes 41/2, 1994, pp. 72-76.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first mention of the sex is given very differently: 1189 - Anja Dötsch, Christian Ottersbach: Breuberg Castle in the Odenwald: from the Hohenstaufen aristocratic seat to the residential castle and fortress. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2025-3 ( Edition of the Administration of State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse 28 ), p. 8; 1160 and 1189 - Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 552 and Thomas Biller: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald. A guide to history and architecture. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1711-2 , p. 181.
  2. ↑ Thomas Biller: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald. A guide to history and architecture. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1711-2 , p. 181.
  3. ↑ Holger Göldner: Discovered the family castle of the Breubergers? In: hessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2001 , Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1749-1 , p. 139.